{"id":411532,"url":"https://alion.io/job/specter-fleet-reliability-engineer","title":"Fleet Reliability Engineer","company":{"id":63567,"name":"Specter","domain":"specter.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/specter-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":73,"open_postings":32,"ghost_share":0.375,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":80,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":87000,"max_usd":205000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":15150},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-13T17:38:40Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-13","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T15:55:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":109,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":109},"description":"Company Background\n Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world.\nToday, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments. Our systems can automatically detect and reason about any physical activity captured on camera, from security incidents (e.g. perimeter intrusion, theft, LPR), to safety monitoring (e.g. PPE detection, injured people), to operational efficiency (e.g. material tracking, congestion monitoring). We offer both long range wireless (1km range) and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.\nOur co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics. We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.\n\nThe Role\n We’re hiring a Fleet Reliability Engineer to keep our sensor fleet running in the field by building the data, analytics, and recovery mechanisms that prevent failures from becoming incidents. As we scale toward thousands of sensors, fleet health becomes a data-and-systems problem.\nThis is the proactive, highest-leverage side of reliability: own the telemetry and data pipeline, verify that fixes hold fleet-wide, and turn field signal into cost-weighted decisions about what to fix first. Much of today’s operational load is addressable through better instrumentation, alert hygiene, and recovery verification, at little to no field cost.\nResponsibilities:\nReliability Data Platform - Primary\nOwn the fleet’s reliability data pipeline end to end: telemetry aggregation, storage, and instrumentation.\n\nDrive down observability cost - own the tooling spend and cut what we pay for but don’t use.\n\nInstrument the fleet and own the health metrics that measure reliability.\n\nProof-of-Recovery & Alert Hygiene\nVerify that fixes hold fleet-wide, not just on the device that paged.\n\nCut alert noise at the source - separate real failures from self-resolving ones.\n\nTurn repeat failure patterns into automated detection and recovery.\n\nFleet Health & Failure-Mode Analytics\nTurn fleet telemetry into a live picture of which cohorts, hardware revisions, and firmware versions are trending toward failure, and why.\n\nBuild the failure-mode analysis that tells engineering what to fix at the source.\n\nOwn fleet-wide trend and forecasting work, including power and solar planning.\n\nReliability Economics & Prioritization\nScore reliability work in dollars - field-trip cost, hardware-return cost, observability spend - and prioritize the most expensive problems first.\n\nSet and track the fleet’s reliability targets: uptime, offline rate, truck-rolls per sensor-year.\n\nGive the team the data to make reliability-versus-cost tradeoffs.\n\nQualifications:\nStrong data and software skills - Python (or Go) and SQL - and the ability to own a data pipeline end to end.\n\nHands-on building and tuning observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar), including their cost.\n\nExperience operating physical or embedded device fleets at scale, and reasoning about how hardware fails in the field.\n\nComfortable turning messy field telemetry into trends, failure modes, and forecasts.\n\nFluency with databases and data modeling (PostgreSQL or equivalent); 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